BASIC INFO:
Name: Straight Snips
Color: Black
Blade Length: 2.5"
Overall Length: approx 8.5"
Surface Treatment: chrome-plate
Weight: 5.9 oz
Trim Diameter: 2.5"
Material: High-carbon Steel
PRODUCT FEATURES:
1. Blades adopts imported SK - 5 blades.
2. The blades is polished and its surface is coated with hard chrome.
3. The material of handles is aluminium alloy & TPR.
THE HISTORY OF PRUNING SHEARS
Cutting plants as part of gardening dates to antiquity in both Europe and East Asian topiary, with specialized scissors used for Chinese penjing and its offshoots ¨C Japanese bonsai and Vietnamese H¨°n Non B ¨C for over a thousand years. In modern Europe, scissors only used for gardening work have existed since 1819, when the French aristocrat Antoine Francois Bertrand de Molleville was listed in "Bon Jardinier", as the first inventor of secateurs. During the late 1890s, secateurs were sold all over Europe and the US. Nowadays every pro- and semiprofessional gardener, vintner and fruit farmer uses secateurs.